I'm not sure which is more surprising, the fact that the Recording Academy actually chose someone with talent to receive the Best New Artist award or the reaction of Justin Bieber fans to the choice.No, I take that back. The reaction of people who've never come to learn the difference between music as a product and music as art is understandable. Even predictable. They've never learned, because no
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I'm going to start off by apologizing for not uploading a sample cut, but the shortest cut I could upload already surpasses the 15 MB Mog limit for mp3 uploads by 5 MB. I suppose I could tag one of these songs off of some album, but that would entirely defeat the point of this post.The late 60's incarnation of the Miles Davis Quintet, featuring Chick Corea on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette on drums, D
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Not mine. Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Slate's Fred Kaplan has a pretty good article on why this was such an important album, but he leaves out a key point.With the exception of Flamenco Sketches, every cut on that album was the first time the song had been played through from beginning to end. While modal playing allowed for a wider expanse for improv
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The Mog Father put up a video today that's prompted me to write a post that's been floating around in my head for some time. David's post is about the death of music criticism, which I hope isn't the case, but there is something to be said about the difference between good music criticism and bad music criticism.A while back, I took issue with AP's Ron Harris' review of Already Free, the new album
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There are a number of factors that contributed to Alicia Keys' phenomenal success back in 2001, not the least of which was the dogged promotion given to her work by Clive Davis. That fact might lead someone like me, who regularly laments the way lesser-known yet equally, if not more, talented artists struggle to simply be heard, to dismiss her has merely the product of a music industry that has...
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